I'm sorry, but as a Tel Aviv resident, I find it horribly offensive to compare the price of real estate and the public cost of military bombardments to the devastation of Gaza and the wretched conditions that the people of Gaza are living in right now. However, I think both sides should be condemned for failing to find diplomatic solutions to the situation. Both Hamas, with its neo-fascist youth camps vowing to fight the Zionist enemy to the death, and Bibi Netanyahu's government with its relentless search for bigger guns to fight Gaza have serious issues, and the cycle of violence is a very real problem that must be blamed for this situation. It is deeply saddening to see the people of Gaza suffer, and there is no comparison with anything in Israel, other than perhaps the giant migrant worker detainment centers Israel has created to prevent Africans from being part of society. I'm not selling out my country, I'm an Israeli citizen, but I think the current political system with its resort to more and more violence and destruction is not building a future for the country. We, and I include myself, are in fact helping to perpetuate Gazan suffering, and contributing to the cycle of violence by not working harder to help improve the basic conditions of the people.
I'm sorry, but as a Tel Aviv resident, I find it horribly offensive to compare the price of real estate and the public cost of military bombardments to the devastation of Gaza and the wretched conditions that the people of Gaza are living in right now. However, I think both sides should be condemned for failing to find diplomatic solutions to the situation. Both Hamas, with its neo-fascist youth camps vowing to fight the Zionist enemy to the death, and Bibi Netanyahu's government with its relentless search for bigger guns to fight Gaza have serious issues, and the cycle of violence is a very real problem that must be blamed for this situation. It is deeply saddening to see the people of Gaza suffer, and there is no comparison with anything in Israel, other than perhaps the giant migrant worker detainment centers Israel has created to prevent Africans from being part of society. I'm not selling out my country, I'm an Israeli citizen, but I think the current political system with its resort to more and more violence and destruction is not building a future for the country. We, and I include myself, are in fact helping to perpetuate Gazan suffering, and contributing to the cycle of violence by not working harder to help improve the basic conditions of the people.